Mystery Metal Tuning Slide

[BigBadandBass]

Hi all,

I got this shires tuning slide in a sale and for the life of me cannot figure out the metal. The buyer also called it “mystery metal”, which is why I am asking the choir here. It’s redder than the yellow brass I have on my trombone and the remaining lacquer to me makes me think it look like it is red or German brass, but last I checked shires doesn’t make tuning slides in that metal. What are ya’lls thoughts?



Edit: should now be viewable

[Bonearzt]

Looks more gold than red...

[harrisonreed]

I thought shires marked their tuning slides

[Arvopart17]

No idea if this helps, but it looks like gold brass to me. Here’s my horn, the bell is Red Brass, main tuning is gold and the f-attachment tuning is yellow.

Sorry the lighting sucks.

[TheBoneRanger]

Looks like any gold brass Shires tuning slide I've ever seen.

Andrew

[Burgerbob]

Looks yellow to me, could be my monitors though. I'd assume a BG would be marked BG.

[Arvopart17]

You would think so! But mine’s definitely gold and it is just marked “X” not “XG”.

[Matt K]

Looks yellow to me as well.

[GabrielRice]

Looks like a standard gold brass tuning slide to me. The actual color you see under lacquer is not only a function of the alloy but on how it was buffed, the age of the lacquer, what environment it has been in, etc., so there can be small variations.

[OneTon]

I was hoping “X” would map to the ever elusive unobtainium.